Hexameter Verse

A line of poetry consisting of six measures, the fifth being a
dactyl and the sixth either a spondee or a trochee. The other four may
be either dactyls or spondees. Homer's two epic poems and Virgil's
Æneid are written in hexameters. The latter begins thus:

Arms and the | man I | sing, who | driven from | Troy by ill-|
fortune

First into | Italy | came, as | far as the | shores of La-| vina.

Much was he harassed by land, much tossed on the pitiless ocean, All
by the force of the gods, and relentless anger of Juno.